Hello and welcome to HAA 1020 Exhibition Seminar of 2017 blog!
This blog is the place to find out all the information and highlights from the classes progress thus so far in the Exhibition. This year’s theme is centered around the Nationality Rooms here at the Cathedral of Learning. The Exhibition theme is The Narrative of the Nationality Rooms: Immigration and Identity in Pittsburgh. To tackle this theme the class has been split up into different working groups that have their own goals in mind that correlate to the main theme. The working groups are identity, visual knowledge and sacred spaces. Each group has been working diligently in the past few weeks to gather information and research at the archives as well as the Special Collections in the Hillman.
In the past week the class has started the second phase of the exhibition, from the research phase to now instillation and getting the gallery ready. We all have now joined additional groups that have different jobs for getting the show ready in the gallery in Frick Fine Arts. Again, we were split up into three different groups to achieve this task. The groups are instillation, documentation and publication. We have made great steps in finalizing certain parts of the show, that being the poster, postcard and the catering, which we all know is the tastiest part of this whole thing!
This blog will be updated two to three times a week, one post will be an overall update on the Exhibition and the class. The other posts will be submitted by students in the class and will discuss something interesting or highlight achievements they themselves have done or want to convey in deeper detail for all to read!